{"product_id":"lartisan-middle-east","title":"L'Artisan Middle-East","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL'Artisan Middle-East\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDear friends,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSome watches mark coordinates on a map. Others carry entire civilisations on their dial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis piece began not with a sketch but with a sheet of raw steel, a region close to my heart, and a question: what if a watch could hold an entire world within the space of 38 millimetres?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBorn from a Connection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Middle East has never been a distant place for me. It is a region I have come to know through years of friendship, collaboration, and trust through partners across the Gulf who welcomed L'Artisan as a brand. Through evenings spent talking about craft, culture, and what it means to make something that endures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIt was those conversations and those people that planted the seed for this watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis dial is my answer to everything they represent. A tribute, made in steel, to a part of the world that has shaped who L'Artisan is becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Dial Carved from Nothing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe dial of the L'Artisan Middle-East does not come from a supplier. It does not come from a catalogue. It comes from a flat, unnamed sheet of steel rough and entirely unmarked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEvery contour you see was engraved entirely in-house. Every border, every coastline, every ridge and valley that gives the Middle East its unmistakable shape raised from the metal, layer by layer, until geography became sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe result is a 3D engraved map of the Middle East unlike anything that exists in watchmaking. Not printed. Not applied. Carved. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Weight of a Region\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Middle East is one of the oldest inhabited territories on Earth. It is the birthplace of writing, of agriculture, of the first cities. Civilisations rose and fell across these lands long before anyone thought to measure time with a mechanical instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe case is 38mm stainless steel, the same architecture that defines every piece in the L'Artisan collection proportioned for the wrist, not for the display case. The domed sapphire crystal sits above the dial with the same elegance it always has. Beneath the caseback, a micro-rotor automatic movement turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe hands are white clean against the raw topography of the dial, easy to read without interrupting what lies beneath them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe strap is beige suede. Soft. Warm. A deliberate choice the colour of desert sand, of ancient stone, of the earth itself in the region carved into the dial above it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCase\u003c\/strong\u003e — 38 mm stainless steel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrystal\u003c\/strong\u003e — Domed sapphire crystal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDial\u003c\/strong\u003e — 3D engraved map of the Middle East, made entirely in-house from a rough sheet of steel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHands\u003c\/strong\u003e — White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMovement\u003c\/strong\u003e — HZ5000A micro-rotor automatic movement · Micro-rotor design for a slim and elegant profile · 28,800 bph (4 Hz) · 42-hour power reserve\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaseback\u003c\/strong\u003e — Sapphire exhibition caseback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStrap\u003c\/strong\u003e — Beige suede · L'Artisan signed buckle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe steel was once nothing. Now it is a continent.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artisan d'Horlogerie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57044274643209,"sku":null,"price":995.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/5151\/6425\/files\/HP7A9189-Edit.jpg?v=1778232189","url":"https:\/\/artisanwatch.be\/products\/lartisan-middle-east","provider":"Artisan d'Horlogerie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}